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Unity pledge written by Labour members goes viral, rattles Establishment

The BBC’s Marr Show discussing Labour’s pledge this morning

A unity pledge written by Labour members has gone viral within hours of its publication and is being signed by increasing numbers of Labour MPs and MSPs, as well as parliamentary candidates, councillors, other officials and ordinary members.

A united Labour Party threatens elite interests – which is why so much effort is expended in trying to create or portray division – and the surest sign of how quickly this public and spontaneous show of unity has rattled the Establishment is in the rapidity of attacks against it.

On social media, comments supporting and signing up to the pledge have drawn large responses from obvious bot and troll accounts, along with dismissive reactions from some ‘mainstream’ journalists.

The Labour unity pledge being misrepresented by ‘MSM’ today

And in the national media, it was immediately misrepresented as a ‘Corbyn loyalty pledge’ – even though Jeremy Corbyn’s name receives no mention and the pledge is to drive Labour into government because any Labour government is better than the alternative.

On this morning’s BBC Andrew Marr Show, for example, Marr described it as a ‘loyalty pledge going viral on social media where all Labour MPs are signing up to be loyal to Jeremy Corbyn‘.

It was fortunate that Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell appeared on the programme to put him right:

SKWAWKBOX comment:

A Labour Party working as one to get into government terrifies the self-appointed ‘elites’ running (down) the country for the few. It seems that’s enough to have them scrambling to misrepresent a simple pledge to pull all wings of the party together.

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I completely agree with Toffee(597) about Clause 4. We need to reintroduce it and soon. Howeve in the meantime the pledge is a good stop gap. In my opinion any person who has been elected as a Labour MP or to any other public office who cannot or will not sign the pledge should lose the whip and be deselected next time round. No ifs no buts.

If we re-established an economy based on common ownership as the fundamental objective of the Labour Party, this would have a profound impact on what we mean by a “permanent customs union” with the EU.

In fact, I suspect it would mean the Party would only accept the kind of permanent customs union which the EU would never allow us – one which gives our governments complete freedom over extending public monopoly and complete freedom over determining industrial subsidies.

Yep. Thousands of right wing Labour councillors up and down the UK will be loving this opportunity to make another bogus pledge, right on the heels of their most recent pledging of their loyalty to Mr Corbyn and their unwritten, unseen, undeclared, hidden pledge to do whatever it takes to cling limpet-like to their basic, Cabinet, and committee chair £££allowances.

Fair comment.
But take a hypothetical example of an MP who signs the pledge, then decided to start a new party called ToryLite the following Tuesday at, say, 3pm.
Even our asinine and pathetic media would have to have a gigggle, wouldn’t they?

Well I never. LabourList, when not busy refusing publication to articles written by the women comrades from Jewish Voice for Labour, are now carrying a piece in favour of dumping the First Past the Post electoral system – proportional representation just in time for the founding of the beloved Dead Centre Party.

If we had adopted AV (which is a crap system) then there is every likelihood that we would have been lumbered with it for at least a couple of generations so I think the public were right to reject the sop of an inferior system.

I suggest you take a few minutes out to actually read the article on LabourList and then if you still feel the need address the points raised by the author

The contents of your post indicate that the first paragraph was as far as you got. Plus unless there is a dramatic change of Labour’s fortunes in Scotland then the most likely outcome of the next GE is a hung parliament

To quote the last paragraph
“Hung parliaments are something shared by the world’s most equal societies, which all use PR. Neither Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Iceland, Finland, Sweden or even Germany or the Netherlands has ever had a socialist majority government – and they all wipe the floor with Canada, the UK and the US in terms of economic equality. Indeed, the relationship is so strong that political scientists suggest a causal relationship between PR and reduced inequality and poverty.

Pledges are meaningless when sworn by people who lie for a living. The liars being the thousands of right wing Labour politicians, local and central, determined to monetise their careers and who are going absolutely nowhere until somebody finds the guts to jettison them.

It’s so so sad. Many people want to Labour in the government under PM Jeremy Corbyn. He is a man who succeeded to have increased so many members of LP. I wonder what some Labour MPs are dreaming of? Are they all un-realist and narcissit?